Well... I did it...

[Veronica]

I got the new bike today.

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[snapdragen]

I got the new bike today.

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Pictures?!?!?!?!?!?!

[DebW]

I got the new bike today.

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Woohoo! Ride report?

[Veronica]

Pictures... maybe today.

I rode just under nine miles around my neighborhood last night after dark. It started to rain and I didn't want to go home. I did two more hills in the rain.

The shifting is smooth. Mark at Rivendell really worked on the front chain rings to make it that way. I REALLY wanted a 46 - 33 compact double... bad knees, long steep mountains that I enjoy climbing. Anyway, he filed by hand the spider between the rings to make the shifting smooth as silk.

I was a little worried about how the shifting would be after reading about troubles some other people have had with their compact doubles. I swear it's less effort than the triple on Fluffy.

I also wondered if it would feel really different on descents. I don't have any really long hills in my neighborhood, nothing more than 1/2 a mile, but I went up and down several to get a feel for the bike. It's like riding Fluffy's svelte twin brother.

Thom says I can't take it out again and get it dirty until we take pictures.



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